The National Mall 3rd Century Initiative was launched in 2004 by the National Coalition to Save Our Mall to promote short-term and comprehensive long-term planning for the Mall's continued vitality as a great landscape symbol of our country's founding ideals and a stage for our evolving democracy

NEW in 2012: The National Coalition to Save Our Mall will exhibit our visions for the 3rd Century Mall at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC as well as other venues.

You will learn the Mall's history, its problems and needs, and our proposed solutions for a 3rd Century Mall. See what excited the enthusiastic support of The Washington Post and The Weekly Standard. Who else has seen it? Congressional members and staff, the media, National Park Service officials, Smithsonian officials and staff, DC parks and planning staff, and citizen groups in the DC area.

As a public service, the Coalition has digitized the rare, out-of-print McMillan Commission Report of 1902 and maps that are the conceptual underpinnings of today's National Mall and Washington, D.C.'s park system.Click here to read it